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We propose a data-driven method for recovering missing parts of 3D shapes. Our method is based on a new deep learning architecture consisting of two sub-networks: a global structure inference network and a local geometry refinement network. The global structure inference network incorporates a long short-term memorized context fusion module (LSTM-CF) that infers the global structure of the shape based...
How much does a single image reveal about the environment it was taken in? In this paper, we investigate how much of that information can be retrieved from a foreground object, combined with the background (i.e. the visible part of the environment). Assuming it is not perfectly diffuse, the foreground object acts as a complexly shaped andfar-from-perfect mirror An additional challenge is that its...
We introduce a data-driven approach to complete partial 3D shapes through a combination of volumetric deep neural networks and 3D shape synthesis. From a partially-scanned input shape, our method first infers a low-resolution – but complete – output. To this end, we introduce a 3D-Encoder-Predictor Network (3D-EPN) which is composed of 3D convolutional layers. The network is...
Facial analysis plays very important role in many vision applications, such as authentication and entertainments. The very early works in the 1990s mostly focus on estimating geometric deformations of facial landmarks to address this task. While in the past several years, more and more efforts have been made to directly learn an appearance regression for facial analysis. Though training regressions...
This paper presents a multilevel analysis of 2D shapes and uses it to find similarities between the different parts of a shape. Such an analysis is important for many applications such as shape comparison, editing, and compression. Our robust and stable method decomposes a shape into parts, determines a parts hierarchy, and measures similarity between parts based on a salience measure on the medial...
Marine dunes are bedforms that, because of their locations and dimensions, can infer with human activities at sea. New MultiBeam Echo-sounder Systems (MBES) enable to collect always more accurate and denser data revealing the diversity of shape, size and dynamics of these features with finer details. Until now, research on dunes have mostly consisted in describing or modeling their morphology and...
A novel method for the detection and segmentation of nuclei and cells in Pap smear images is introduced. The method is based on a geometric analysis of iso- and edge-contours. For nuclei detection we employ isocontours taken at different levels of intensity and we report best detection (object) recall values as well as best segmentation precision values. For cell outline detection, we employ traditional...
In order to perform productive autonomous excavation of a fragmented rock pile, it is necessary to recognize the condition of the fragmented rock pile and to plan appropriate excavating motion according to the condition of the fragmented rock pile. In this paper, we propose imitation-based motion planning method, and develop a recognizer of rock pile condition and an excavating motion planner. We...
For safe and efficient operations in the iceberg-infested waters offshore eastern Canada, accurate information on icebergs is needed. Databases on iceberg sightings, shapes and management techniques have been developed in order to bring all relevant iceberg information into one repository. Iceberg sightings have been recorded offshore Newfoundland and Labrador since the 1600s. Sighting methods, locations,...
Criminal and victim identification is always vital in forensic investigation. Many biometric traits, such as DNA, fingerprint, face and palm print, have been regularly used by law enforcement agencies. However, they are not applicable to legal cases where only non-facial body sites of criminals or victims in evidence images are available for identification. These cases include but are not limited...
Recently, many studies on facial aging synthesis have been reported for the purpose of security applications such as criminal investigation, kidnappings, and entertainment applications such as movies or video games. However, the representation of wrinkles, which is one of the most important elements when reflecting age characteristics, remains difficult. Additionally, the influence of lighting conditions...
Depth map super resolution from multi-view depth or color images has long been explored. Multi-view stereo methods produce fine details at texture areas, and depth recordings would compensate when stereo doesn't work, e.g. at non-texture regions. However, resolution of depth maps from depth sensors are rather low. Our objective is to produce a high-res depth map by fusing different sensors from multiple...
This paper describes an automatic lip reading system consisting of two main modules 1) a pre-processing module able to extract lip geometry information from the video sequence and 2) a classification module to identify the visual speech based on dynamic lip movements. The recognition performance of the proposed system has been assessed in the recognition of the English digits 0 to 9 as spoken by the...
Full Paper —A new computer tool for designing reflectarray antennas is presented. The implemented method generates the geometrical model of the reflectarray antenna by defining the properties of each unit cell. The number of layers, the cells dimensions, the dielectric materials, the cells orientation, periodicity, etc., are some cell parameters that can be studied. The reflection coefficient introduced...
We present a novel method for shape analysis which represents shapes as probability density functions and then uses the intrinsic geometry of this space to match similar shapes. In our approach, shape densities are estimated by representing the square-root of the density in a wavelet basis. Under this model, each density (of a corresponding shape) is then mapped to a point on a unit hypersphere. For...
This paper presents a probabilistic approach for logo detection and localization in natural scene images. Two probability distributions are computed, one considering the features extracted from the key points located inside a region and the second refers to shape geometry defined by the key points. The barycentric co-ordinates are considered to define the shape statistics. The performance of the proposed...
Arabic words have a rich structure. They are made of subwords (groups of connected letters) and diacritical marks (dots). This paper proposes a sparse descriptor specifically designed for lexicon reduction in handwritten Arabic documents. The topological and geometrical features of subwords are extracted from the skeleton image, based on the concept of local density. The sparse descriptor is then...
Identification of people through hand based biometry has been lately researched by different scientific groups due to its simplicity, reliability, and acceptability. In the very early years several works based on different acquisition devices or procedures has been presented. In this paper we focused the proposal on a property of the hand shape biometric devices that has been barely studied: the interoperability...
This paper presents a contactless hand based biometric identification system using geometric and palm features. Hand images are acquired using two commercial webcams with 1200×1600 pixel resolution which are refered to as the “IR” and “visible” webcams. The IR webcam has been modified by exchanging the IR filter with a visible filter lens and reducing the gain and exposure time to improve the hand...
Facial expression analysis is one of the important components for effective human-computer interaction. However, to develop robust and generalizable models for expression analysis one needs to break the dependence of the models on the choice of the coordinate frame of the camera i.e. expression models should generalize across facial poses. To perform this systematically, one needs to understand the...
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